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The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 3

Note 184 — NOTE ON SYMBOLS (continued 2)

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T. of a Shrew, scc. ix, xi, xiii; Sir T. More, scc. ix, ‘Enter Sr Thomas Moore, Mr Roper, and Seruing men setting stooles’; xiii, ‘Enter ... Moore ... as in his house at Chelsey’ ... (1413) ‘Sit good Madame [in margin, ‘lowe stooles’] ... (1521) ‘Entreate their Lordships come into the hall’. E. M. I. III. i, ii (a continuous scene), is at Thorello’s house, and in III. iii. 1592 it is described with ‘I saw no body to be kist, vnlesse they would haue kist the post, in the middle of the warehouse; for there I left them all ... How? were they not gone in then?’ But I. iv. 570, also at Thorello’s, has ‘Within sir, in the warehouse’. Probably the warehouse was represented as an open portico.

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